California’s decades-old perk, which allows solo drivers of electric vehicles to use carpool lanes, expired on Monday. While the program officially ended in October, the California Highway Patrol ...

The opportunities are time sensitive because the California HOV Clean Air Vehicle decal will be eligible from the next few months until the program finally closes on September 30, 2025, and will never ...

Tim Fang is a digital producer at CBS Bay Area. A Bay Area native, Tim has been a part of the CBS Bay Area newsroom for more than two decades and joined the digital staff in 2006. Drivers of electric ...

For more than two decades, electric vehicle drivers in California have enjoyed a major perk: access to carpool lanes, even when driving solo. But that benefit—granted through the state’s Clean Air ...

Bad news, electric vehicle owners. Starting Monday morning, one of California’s longest-running incentives for people to buy electric cars — a program that provided access to carpool lanes regardless ...

California is about to end its EV HOV decal program. The Trump administration has decided not to extend the popular program. California was the first state to implement a clean air vehicle program ...

On Oct. 1, 2025, the Clean Air Vehicles decal program ended. That means that vehicles in the State of California — and elsewhere — with a set of state-issued carpool lane stickers (CAV decals) may no ...

Bad news, electric vehicle owners. Starting Monday morning, one of California’s longest-running incentives for people to buy electric cars — a program that provided access to carpool lanes regardless ...

Bad news, electric vehicle owners. Starting Monday morning, one of California’s longest-running incentives for people to buy electric cars — a program that provided access to carpool lanes regardless ...